ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

GEOGRAPHY 6037
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT TASK
FORM 5 TASK 1 TERM 3 2017

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A TASK FOR THE TEACHER

LEARNING AREA GEOGRAPHY (6037)
LEVEL FORM 5
TERM 3
TASK TYPE FIELDWORK
TASK 1
Fieldwork on the following Hydrological elements:
1. Infiltration rate
2. River discharge
TOPICS
1. Hydrology and Fluvial processes
2. Population and Migration
3. Statistics
SKILLS TO BE ASSESSED
1. Planning and Designing
2. Measuring skills
3. Observation
4. Recording
5. Investigation
6. Problem solving
7. Critical thinking
8. Graphicacy and numeracy
9. Disaster Risk Management

OBJECTIVES
1. To make the necessary apparatus.
2. To measure the infiltration rates at three different sites.
3. To measure the discharge along any named river.
4. To assess the effects of high or low discharge on the local community
5. To investigate measures which can be put in place to control the effects of discharge variations.

TEACHER’S NOTES
1. Learners should be guided to sample any three sites in their locality and measure infiltration rates.
2. Teacher facilitates in the designing and making of apparatus for measuring infiltration rate.
3. The teacher should facilitate on the measuring of river discharge.
4. Learners should be given freedom of choice on suitable methods to be used in the field.
5. Learners should be able to illustrate collected data on diagrams.
6. The teacher should ensure safety of learners during fieldwork.
7. Please note that the measuring of discharge will require each learner to make use of assistants.
8. Learners should measure discharge either at weekly intervals or after a rain storm hourly.

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9. Learners are expected to design and administer a questionnaire/interview guide on the implications
of high or low discharge in the local area.
NB The Data collected should be enough to enable the learner to show trends over time.
10. The teacher should mark the task using the marking scheme provided

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LEARNER’S TASK GUIDE

LEARNINGAREA Geography
LEVEL Form 5
TASKTYPE Fieldwork
TOPICS Hydrology and Fluvial Processes, population and migration
and Statistics
TASK Fieldwork on Infiltration rate and River discharge
TASK GUIDELINE
You are expected to conduct field work on:
1. Measuring the rate of infiltration
2. Measuring river discharge either on weekly interval or hourly intervals (after a storm)
You will be assessed on the following competencies and skills

COMPETENCE/ SKILL MARK ALLOCATION

Planning and Designing 6

Observation, Measuring and Recording 19

Data presentation 5

Data Analysis and Evaluation 10

TOTAL 40

OBJECTIVES
You should be able to:
1. To design and make the necessary apparatus.
2. To measure the infiltration rates at three different sites.
3. To measure the discharge along any named river.
4. To assess the effects of high or low discharge on the local community
5. To investigate measures which can be put in place to control the effects of discharge variations.

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MARKING GUIDE

SKILL MARK ALLOCATION

Planning and Designing
Choice of data collection tools/ methods 2
Designing questionnaire/ interview guide 3
Designing and making apparatus
- Choice of materials 1
- Quality of materials 1
- Suitability 1
- Effectiveness 1

Observation, Measuring and Recording

Measuring infiltration rate 3
Measuring stream velocity 3
Measuring stream width 1
Measuring depths at regular intervals 3
Recording the data collected 1
Calculating the cross sectional area using graph paper 3
Calculating stream discharge
2
Data presentation
Choice of presentation technique 1
Construction of chosen technique(s)
- Title 1
- Key 1
- Axes/ Details 2
Data Analysis and Evaluation
Interpretation of data 4 (mark by appreciation)
Implications of the findings to the local area
- Positive effects 2
- Negative effects 2
Mitigatory measures 2

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GEOGRAPHY 6037 FORM 5 TERM 3
ACHIVEMENTS STANDARDS

DIMENSIONS 25- 30 20- 24 15- 19 10- 14 6-9 0-5

/CRITERIA Excellent Very good Good Satisfactory Fair Unsatisfactory

Planning and Impressive choice of Very good choice of Good choice of Satisfactory choice Fair choice of Unsatisfactory
Designing materials and design materials and design materials and design of materials and materials and design choice of materials
of apparatus of apparatus of apparatus design of of apparatus and design of
apparatus apparatus

Excellent Very good Good questionnaire/ Working Deficient Failure to design

questionnaire/ questionnaire/ interview guide questionnaire/ questionnaire/ questionnaire/inter
interview guide interview guide interview guide interview guide view guide

Observation, Precision in methods Very good methods Good methods of Satisfactory Fair methods of Failure to carry out
Measuring and of measuring of measuring measuring methods of measuring with gaps some measurements
Recording measuring here and there

Data Excellent report Very good report Good report Fair report Satisfactory report Unsatisfactory report
presentation,
Analysis and Excellent graphicacy Relevant graphs Good graphs Working graphs Some graphs Missing or
Evaluation skills inaccurate graphs

Recommendations Recommendations Recommendations that Recommendations Recommendations that Poor

that are in line with that are in line with are in line with the that are in line with are in line with the recommendations
the findings the findings findings the findings findings that are not practical

Very high scores in High scores in the High scores in at least High scores in one
the three areas three areas two areas areas Low scores in the three Very low scores in
areas the three areas

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